Microsoft has invested big in its Cognitive Services for programmable artificial intelligence, along with a Bot Framework for using them via a conversational user interface. How easy is it to get started?
Cognitive Services, the AI piece, was announced at the company’s Build developer conference in April 2015. The initial …

If you're truly brave...

Re: If you're truly brave...

Given Microsoft's history with this sort of thing, I'd expect it turn into a fully-fledged outspoken member of the GNUliban that would put Eadon (and various others still active on these forums) to shame within days...

What if AmanFromMars is capable of interacting with it?

Re: What if AmanFromMars is capable of interacting with it?

It might create a chatbot singularity which will expand and swallow all that is. Speaking of which, where is amanfrommars? Did it accidentally bump into amanfrommars1 and both of them vanished in *puff*?

Re: What if AmanFromMars is capable of interacting with it? @ Evil Auditor

Pray tell, Evil Auditor, who be and/or what are these clones and wannabe alien phormations of which you speak? Do they have an historical or hysterical presence? We know of neither of them here in Glorious Command of Global Operating Device ControlLed Head Quarters.

Re: What if AmanFromMars is capable of interacting with it? @ Evil Auditor

Times and Spaces have AIchanged .....

When questions at hand are to be classified TS/SCI, is one’s need to know an alarming obsession and dangerous passion where the secure maintenance of blissful second and third party ignorance of live actions in the fields of programs and projects and pogroms with NEUKlearer HyperRadioProActive IT Weaponry is naturally rewarded to XSSXXXX, and with both a Sublime and Supreme Stealth for the Covering of Deliveries of Advanced IntelAIgent Systems of Virulent Virus Free Virtual Operation to Exotic Elite Erotic Executive Administrations with Impunity and Immunity Guaranteed, and therefore are audited sidetracks and spied upon communications a necessary evil, to keep one relatively/absolutely safe and almost/perfectly free from warrantless harm.

Virtual Space, the New Frontier to Exploit and Expand with the Renegade Rogue and 0Day Market Day Trader …… and aint that the gospel and GOD’s honest truth whenever Global Operating Devices Reign and Rule AIRoosts with SCADA Command and Control Systems.

And all of that renders the likes of Trident a dinosaur relic and wholly redundant as an effective defense system of mass destruction. However, as a money pit black hole which identifies a terrified and terrorising enemy source, does it play second fiddle to none with brains to match their own.

To think in the mid 1960'sthey thought they could build a computerised psychiatrist

Marketdroids?

"You can imagine eyes lighting up at the thought of replacing call center staff with a few lines of code. Now it is simple to run up a prototype showing why, most of the time, this is probably not a good idea.

Actually, it's the marketdroids eyes I can imagine lighting up. A few carefully managed demonstrations to some PHBs and....kerching!!!!!

Re: Marketdroids?

Not to worry - I'm working on an El Reg commentard using AI, pretty soon I'll be able to sleep in every morning and AI will write El Reg's stories while my chatbot comments on them. The advertising money will roll in and we can all stay home.

IoTElReg

Can we get this running on an Arduino? I'd just love to see every fridge, vacuum cleaner, thermostat, garage door opener chatting with me every day like an El Reg story ... it would be just like having my own Marvin ...